high-rise in the sunshine

Monday 26 August 2013

You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

"Life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness."

We all love that movie, we all love that book. My friend & I took a step further and decided to recreate some of the aspects of it in photographs. I had absolutely marvelous time lomoshooting her! You can tell that I tried to focus on details this time. Her room has always been somehow magical to me - I am so happy we made it work, I'm more than happy with how those turned out. I used my Praktica & the new Helios lens I'm so crazy about these days. The film used was Kodak Colorplus 200. Definitely fair results, although due to the fact that I was working under hard lighting conditions, with shutter speed basically always 1/15s or 1/8s, without a tripod, I do see some of unintentional hand movements here and there. Pardon me! :)

On the other hand, I had the most amazing time in Gdynia this weekend! The weather was perfect, sunny, yet a little bit windy. I'll gladly show you some of my snaps next week. For now, I gotta say arrivederci! If you enjoy that post, please drop me a comment, I love reading your thoughts on my work!





18 comments:

  1. Oh the queen of beauty and grace! I think I'm going to watch Roman Holiday again tomorrow :)

    Really loved the opening quote.

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  2. OH MY GOSH. Kasia, it's amazing. You're right, even though Breakfast at Tiffany's was a recent watch I do love that movie like crazy. :)

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    1. Have you seen Charade? It's my ultimate favourite when it comes to Audrey Hepburn movies!

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  3. I love that you guys recreated it, these turned out so well. The ones with the cat are perfect, haha.

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    1. thank you Jane! I swear, the cat was around just for those two pictures, we were so lucky to capture him cooperating! <3

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  4. Bardzo ładne zdjęcia, szczególnie to pierwsze!

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  5. One of my favorite movies ever,true*

    lovely recreation :D

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  6. Thanks for the comment! :)

    Beautiful pictures!
    I love the Breakfast at Tiffany!

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  7. Lubię tą kliszę, fajnie reaguje na różne światło. :) Śliczne zdjęcia.

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    1. Dziękuję!!! Kiedy kobieta w kodaku po zeskanowaniu kliszy uprzedziła, że zdjęcia są jak to określiła "bardzo żółte" trochę się zmartwiłam, ale w domu szybko się okazało, że wyszło dokładnie tak jak chciałam! :D

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  8. Oh, these pictures are gorgeous! I'm a big fan of the book (not so much the movie), but I love how you managed to track down that eyemask :)

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    1. Actually, my friend made the eyemask herself! She's a real artsy type. I'm thinking of featuring a little tutorial on here for it! Thank you, Mani! <3

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  9. Aww these photos are so cute! I love the cat - all photos need a cat hehe x

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    1. I couldn't agree more! One day I'll get my own <3

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  10. pretty pictures. love how the little lights turned out in the photos.

    Sisters Marie
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  11. Those photos are fun! And I like the french boudoir kind of atmosphere, x

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  12. Your cat is the handsomest! Love your photos, as always :)

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